Harry Knowles

* Ain't it Cool? was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-52597-9) in 3/02. The foreword is written by Quentin Tarantino.* Knowles' Web site gets over 1,200 emails and 1.5 million hits daily. Quentin Tarantino, Ron Howard, and Bruce Willis are among his many celebrity fans.* Harry has appeared on Roger Ebert & the Movies and Politically Incorrect, and has been profiled in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Time(R), Parade, US, and Entertainment Weekly. He was featured in Earthlink.com's $15 million ad campaign.* Internet site books have become instant New York Times bestsellers, including Matt Drudge's Drudge Manifesto (New American Library, 2000) and The Onion's Our Dumb Century (Three Rivers Press, 1999).* Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook(R).

The Australian Workers Union (AWU), formed in 1886, has been one of the most influential unions in Australia's political and industrial history. This comprehensive and compelling book, first published in 1996, is a national history of the AWU. It shows that the union has been a player in key events and crises in Australian history, including the great strikes of the 1890s, the 1916–17 conscription crisis, Labor's splits in the 1950s and the 1956 shearers' strike. The book features vivid portraits of the tempestuous and talented individuals who matched these great issues. Unique as a union whose industrial and political power was unrivalled for over sixty years, few unions in Great Britain or the United States have had such influence as the AWU. This book will be an important addition to labour history, but it is also a work of general appeal.